Chapter 1 Lily's Upgrades

The firepower upgrade for Lily obviously satisfied the husky's curiosity and playful nature to the extreme. If it weren't for the fact that using the armor required some energy, Hao Ren was sure that after Lily roughly understood the armor's performance and usage, she would have started a whole day of wild playing—well, even without a whole day of wildness, it was almost the same, because for the better part of the day, she was either giggling or chasing after Hao Ren asking this and that, so excited that she couldn't stop at all...

"Actually, this set of equipment, in addition to enhancing her personal combat power, has a great role in team support," Hao Ren took the time to explain to the others while Lily was a little quieter, "Many of the tactical modules of this armor can be connected to the life-support collars you usually use, and the armor itself can temporarily provide a very powerful range of protective force field. When the situation requires it, Lily herself can become a unit like a battlefield fortress to provide support for the entire team. In addition, there is an emergency medical system built into that thing, which can be used for third parties, and it can come in handy when May isn't around..."

Halfway through his explanation, Lily rushed over again in a flurry: "Landlord, landlord! When I was looking at the manual just now, there was also an emergency escape combat mode, what is that for? I didn't have time to test it just now..."

"Don't mess with this function," Hao Ren smacked his forehead, thinking that this function was the last to be completed, and he really forgot to explain it in detail, "In an emergency—for example, when the situation is too tricky and everyone has to run away, you can activate it, and then you will detach from the armor, and this combat armor can fight independently for a period of time under the drive of the built-in AI. Although it will most likely be scrapped afterwards, it's still good for buying time."

Lily immediately showed a pained expression when she heard this: "Wow—it's actually a one-time function... it feels like it will hurt so much to use..."

"You're about to lose your life in a critical moment, and you still care about the equipment?" Nangong Wuyue rolled her eyes at Lily, and then sighed, "To be honest, this thing looks so cool, I'm a little envious. Landlord, aren't you planning to get us each a set?"

"I don't need it anyway," Izhaks said immediately, "My combat style has been formed for almost ten thousand years, and this kind of 'full set of equipment' that would almost completely subvert the way I fight is a hassle for me. Of course, if it's just some simpler equipment with less complex functions, it's still very useful."

"I don't need it either," Vivian shook her head, "I just absorbed the power returned by those evil spirits, and it will take a long time to sort them out. If you give me such a high-tech gadget to learn from scratch at this time... I definitely won't be able to handle it."

These two can be said to be the well-deserved steady and rational factions in Hao Ren's small team. Their rich experience and the broad perspective it brings allow them not to be dazzled by a gorgeous set of equipment like Nangong Wuyue. They can clearly see the advantages and disadvantages of this combat armor and judge whether they need such a thing—

For Lily, whose beast form is not yet fully formed and whose various shortcomings are obvious, this type of armor is very useful, but it is not very meaningful for them.

Hao Ren smiled: "Actually, I really considered whether to upgrade the equipment for each of you before—but like Vivian and Izhaks said, the equipment I can make may not be suitable for your path. And then again, no matter how powerful the high-tech I'm tinkering with here, it's probably not as effective as the natural treasures swiped from Raven 12345 when applied to you. Lily's armor has so many tricks, but isn't her most powerful thing still the dog cannon? I'm thinking that instead of researching new equipment for you, it's better to consider when it would be more worthwhile to get some benefits from Raven 12345..."

The dignified pope was openly discussing the issue of swiping things from his own goddess, and the onlookers were not surprised by this. This scene can probably only be placed on Raven 12345.

Just as Hao Ren finished speaking, Vivian suddenly remembered something: "By the way, didn't the goddess say that she would be able to analyze the Amantir Crystal in at most half a month? I remember that today is already half a month, has she sent any news?"

Vivian's reminder made Hao Ren suddenly remember this matter. He had been busy tinkering with Lily's gorgeous "heavy combat armor" for the past two days, and he had forgotten that Raven 12345 had bragged to him without delivering. So he quickly called the data terminal over: "Terminal, is there any news from the boss?"

"Not yet," the data terminal shook its body, "It should not be completed yet—otherwise, with Raven's flamboyant nature, as long as there is a little result at this time, wouldn't she shout it so that the whole universe knows?"

Hao Ren curled his lips, thinking that the female psychopath was indeed bragging to him at the beginning. He was still feeling that the other party had suddenly become reliable—perhaps the mental exhaustion after a big battle with the Brain of the Makers had not passed, and he was having hallucinations.

But as soon as he flashed this thought in his mind, he suddenly heard Raven 12345's arrogant and smug laughter in his mind: "Hahaha! Hao Ren! Come to the divine kingdom quickly, this goddess, after half a month of hard work and exquisite calculations, has solved the problem of the beacon!"

Hao Ren was stunned, thinking that there was such a coincidence in the world, he was just about to doubt the reliability of the goddess, and the other party sent the good news, which made him feel a little guilty. He quickly replied in his heart: "Um... okay, I'll go over right away."

"Why does your tone sound so unwilling?" Raven 12345 was very敏锐this time, "Are you being lazy?"

Hao Ren quickly explained: "Oh no, I was just thinking about why you haven't sent a message yet, and I thought you were bragging before, and you couldn't complete it and were asking for help everywhere..."

"Cough cough... Ho... How could I do such an unreliable thing? I'm certified to work, certified to work, you understand? Stop talking nonsense, come over here!"

Then the goddess rudely hung up the communication, leaving Hao Ren stunned: Why does he always feel that the tone of the main speaker just now was a little虚?

On the side, Vivian guessed that it was Raven 12345 who had sent the "oracle" when she saw Hao Ren suddenly absent-minded, so she waited silently in place without disturbing him. At this time, she saw Hao Ren blink his eyes, and then she asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's a coincidence," Hao Ren shrugged, "The cracking of the Amantir Crystal seems to be completed, and the goddess just sent a message asking me to go over. Alright, then you can go home by yourselves first, I'll go to the divine kingdom. By the way, save me some food for tonight, I guess the goddess won't provide food again today: I seem to have offended her a little bit just now."

After arranging things here, Hao Ren hurried to Raven 12345's "divine kingdom" alone with the data terminal.

He was surprised to find that the divine realm had not exploded until now—could it be that the goddess has been helping him analyze the data in those crystal beacons for half a month, even forgetting the effort to cause trouble and demolish the house?

Anyway, Raven 12345 received Hao Ren in the big office with a smug look on her face. As soon as they met, the goddess took out something from the space rift and threw it over: "Here you are, this is the final result."

Hao Ren hurriedly caught it in a panic: "Hey, wait... be careful! This thing is so important!"

Raven 12345 rolled her eyes: "Look at how nervous you are, how could something blessed by a true god be broken so easily."

Hao Ren thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, that's true. Um... speaking of which, this thing is the analyzed beacon? It's not quite the same as I imagined, how is this thing used?"

He looked at the strange thing in his hand—it was three rhombus-shaped blue crystals, each only the size of a finger, floating in a closed small light sphere, and the entire light sphere was only slightly larger than a fist. This strange structure looked loose and fragile, but it was unusually stable when held in the hand. Hao Ren tried to pinch the outer light sphere and found that although this thing felt soft when he first touched it, it was even harder than a battleship armor when he exerted force.

He picked up the light sphere and shook it in front of his eyes, and saw the three small crystals inside also floating irregularly, but no matter how they floated, there seemed to be a stable connection between them, neither colliding nor moving further away.

"Is it going to cooperate with the three beacon crystals that I have already obtained?"

Raven 12345 seemed to be in a trance over there. When Hao Ren spoke again, she suddenly woke up and said, "No, no, you underestimate the technical strength of this goddess. It's like this, I put the beacon data you got into a virtual universe snapshot, and then let the entire universe operate imitating the basic laws of the Dream Plane—you say where did these basic parameters come from? Of course, you extracted them from the Throne of the Finality—then in this virtual machine, I let the beacon data combine on its own, in short, after a series of complex calculations, what came out in the end is the thing in your hand."

This goddess seemed to have ignored the most important technical details in the whole process, and instead jumped directly to the conclusion: "What I'm giving you is the beacon that has been recombined, because all the data and changes are already covered in it, so there is no need for the three crystals including the Amantir Crystal, and the recombined beacon is encrypted and packaged according to the Xiling standards, so it can be directly connected to the data interface of the Tortoise Rock Platform, and the navigation computer on the spaceship can directly compatible with it, how about it, this will save a lot of trouble, right?"

Although he always felt that Raven 12345's tone was strange, Hao Ren had to admit that her final arrangement did save him a lot of trouble. A beacon that can be directly read by the navigation computer of the Tortoise Rock Platform—doesn't this mean that he can directly drive Nolan to the divine kingdom of the Creation Goddess?

"That's what's going on," Raven 12345 gave an affirmative answer, her expression finally becoming serious, "Get ready, Hao Ren, this may be the biggest challenge you have to face so far."